Use of Personality & Career
Assessments for MBA Students
About Us
• PsychAbility offers the world’s most popular
and widely used personality, career, leadership
and other psychometric tests. We administer
the authentic Strong Interest Inventory®,
MBTI®, TKI, FIRO-B®, CPI 260® and other
products from CPP, the exclusive publisher of
these best-selling assessments.
About CPP, Inc.
• Since its founding in 1956, CPP, Inc., has been
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organizational development - including the
Fortune 500, for more than 50 years.
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The Role of Work in People’s Lives
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Need for survival
Need for relatedness
Need for self-determination
Working as a source of dreams and
disappointments
• Study of urban Chicago by Wilson (1996)
• Recent advances in positive psychology
• PE-fit theory
Strong Interest Inventory®
• For nearly 80 years, the Strong Interest
Inventory® assessment has provided timetested, research validated insights to help
individuals in their search for a rich, fulfilling
career. As one of the most respected and
widely used career planning instruments in
the world, it has been used extensively in
educational institutions and organizations of
all sizes.
Strong Interest Inventory®
How You Will Benefit
• The Strong can be a valuable tool in helping you
identify your interests, enabling you to achieve
satisfaction in your work
• Identify career options consistent with your
interests
• Choose appropriate education and training
relevant to your interests
• Maintain balance between your work and leisure
activities
• Understand aspects of your personality most
closely associated with your interests
• Determine your preferred learning
environments
• Learn about your preferences for leadership,
risk taking, and teamwork
• Use interests in shaping your career direction
• Decide on a focus for the future
• Direct your own career exploration at various
stages in your life
About the Assessment
291-item Strong reveals interest patterns
through a range of complementary scales:
• 6 General Occupational Themes (GOTs)
• 30 Basic Interest Scales (BISs)
• 260 Occupational Scales (OSs)—updated in
2012—
• 5 Personal Style Scales (PSSs)
GOTs
Applications of the Strong®
• Choosing a college major
• Career exploration
• Career development
• Career alignment
Test Report
Connect with O*Net
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®
• MBTI is the world’s most powerful and well
known Personality Test. Over 100 million people
have taken it. Last year alone two million people
used their MBTI ® results to gain understanding
about themselves and the people around them.
This test is designed to help you understand your
unique personality and the way you relate to
others around you. It is backed by thousands of
research studies and has been found to be both
reliable and valid in assessing personality.
Fortune 500
What issues Can it Help Address
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Self understanding and development
Team development
Leadership development
Interpersonal skills development
Conflict management
Executive and line manager coaching
Stress management
Career transition and planning
About the Assessment
• Makes Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type
understandable and useful in people’s everyday
lives.
• The essence of the theory
• The MBTI assessment helps people identify their
preferences on four dichotomies:
• Extraversion or Introversion
• Sensing or INtuition
• Thinking or Feeling
• Judging or Perceiving
Four Dichotomies
16 Personality Types
• People’s four-letter MBTI type code is a simple way
of signifying the interaction of their preferences.
What are Preferences?
• Sign your name!
• Preferred vs. non-preferred
Sensing vs. Intuition
T/F Exercise
• “There was a 36-year-old man, and he had six
children between the ages of 1 and 6.
Unfortunately, the man’s wife had died about six
months prior to this incident. One day, out of
desperation, he went into a grocery store, filled
up a grocery cart with items, and proceeded to
walk past the cashier…out the front door…and
into the parking lot with the full grocery cart. The
cashier ran after him and asked him whether he
had paid for the items in his cart. The man told
the cashier no.”
To Prosecute or Not?
• You are the manager of this grocery store. You
have complete autonomy to decide whether
you would prosecute this man or not.
• Would you prosecute the man or not? If yes,
why? If not, why not?
• “Did I tell you that there were
groceries in the cart?”
• MBTI Assessment Report
Prayers based on Type
ISTJ: Lord help me to relax about insignificant details beginning
tomorrow at 11:41.23 am e.s.t.
ISTP: God help me to consider people's feelings, even if most of
them ARE hypersensitive.
ESTJ: God, help me to not try to RUN everything. But, if You need
some help, just ask.
ISFP: Lord, help me to stand up for my rights (if you don't mind
my asking).
ESFJ: God give me patience, and I mean right NOW.
INFJ: Lord help me not be a perfectionist. (did I spell that
correctly?)
INFP: God, help me to finish everything I sta
Technical Brief
• Data from European English, French, German,
Latin American Spanish, European Spanish
• Chinese, Asian, Hispanic, Native & Caucasian
MBTI & Strong Combined Reports
Connect to O*Net
Resources for Students
• Research the career fields and occupations
suggested in this report at
http://www.onetonline.org
• Occupational Outlook Handbook at
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/
http://PsychAbility.Org
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Questions